As early as the twelfth century a.d., the settlements of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in the American Southwest were notable for their “great houses,” mas- sive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms and often stand three or four stories high. Archaeologists have been trying to determine how the buildings were used. While there is still no universally agreed upon explanation, there are three competing theories.
<span style="font-size: 19.36px;">Both the reading and lecture discuss how the Chaco the greate house utilized. The former points out three suggestion and the latter contradict this suggestion.
First of all, the author of the passage claims that the Chaco house was used as an apartment where people reside. However, the lecture contends that, as the Chaco looks like an apartment from outside but from the inside, it did not have the amenity to act as an apartment. For example, it did not have enough fire stations to cook food for hundreds of families, whereas, in reality, it supported only a few fire stations.
Secondly, the author of the passage states that Chaco could have been used as a storage facility for maize crop. However, the lecture contradicts with the statement, the excavation did not find any trace of maize crop or any containers for storing.
Thirdly, the author of the passage claims that the Chaco was used as a ceremonial center. Nevertheless, this idea was ridiculed by the lecturer, stating that the excavation of the site revealed nothing besides the broken pot which contained trash, the lecture also suggest that this trash was dumped by people when the Chaco was being constructed.</span><br>
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, however, look, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, whereas, for example, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1050.0 1373.03311258 76% => OK
No of words: 202.0 270.72406181 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19801980198 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.76996954942 4.04702891845 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14784537375 2.5805825403 122% => OK
Unique words: 115.0 145.348785872 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.569306930693 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 315.0 419.366225166 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.2992339958 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.666666667 110.228320801 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4444444444 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 14.2222222222 7.06452816374 201% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.11052350358 0.272083759551 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0469260537869 0.0996497079465 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0345689352325 0.0662205650399 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0707726193452 0.162205337803 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0363322930467 0.0443174109184 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 63.6247240618 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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